Restoration Shaman Review of Farseer Hero Talents - Ancestral Healing But What is an Ancestor?
Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion.
Our Restoration Shaman guide writer, Theun, offers an early review of the Farseer Shaman Hero Talents that call upon the ancestors to aid you and your allies, but what does an ancestor exactly do and why aren't there more ties to existing ancestral spells?
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Farseer Restoration Shaman Review
Initial Thoughts
I can sort of see the direction they're heading as it sounds very much like Divine Image for Holy Priest, but it feels… unfinished? We have a lot of spells thematically related to ancestors in our spellbook (as I'll talk about later) and none of the nodes in this Hero Talent Tree mention any of those spells. The choice nodes feel like a simming problem rather than a playstyle choice, the defensive node is very weak, and the capstone doesn't exactly feel like a capstone. As I was initially reading it, I was expecting the capstone to make all of these Ancestors that you're summoning to do something really neat, but instead we just get another way to summon an Ancestor every 45 seconds. It didn't make me excited to be a Farseer Shaman.
Gameplay
How Powerful is Farseer?
This is a hard question to answer as we really don't know much about the Ancestors that we're going to be summoning. There are multiple ways to summon Ancestors, either by or if you also have Nature's Swiftness talented, or randomly via and. I don't think these Ancestors are
